Antigone Comparative Essay

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Antigone & Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Comparative Essay In both Antigone and the Sermon Martin Luther King Jr. the theme of conformity versus nonconformity is explored through the actions of Antigone and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Over the course of the sermon and the story multiple topics are introduced in context of conformity versus nonconformity. While Antiogne demonstrated nonconformity through disobeying the law, Dr. King embodies nonconformity through a sermon/speech. The first point of comparison is that nonconformity relates to religion. Antigone relates what she did as a religious act. “No one understands where they came from but everyone recognises their force: And no man's arrogance power can make me disobey them.”(pg.22) Antigone